This book should force a debate of renewed vigor about what we mean by egoism, whether and how the egoism / altruism dichotomy should be applied within eudaimonistic ethical theories ... Smith’s new ...

duties, intentions, consequences, character, or something else) and applied ethics (which applies normative ethical theories to particular concrete problems).

Philosophers nowadays tend to divide ethical theories into three areas: metaethics, normative ethics and applied ethics. Meta-ethics deals with the nature of moral judgement. It looks at the ...

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the ethics of biotechnology), ethical theory and the philosophy of death and dying. In the EULOD project she is responsible for the development of the strategy for the normative research, the ethical ...